The Power of Yet

Empower yourself in just one word

This method helps participants identify what they'd like to change in their lives and reorient their minds by constructing a statement about that change using the word "yet". Simple and powerful.

What is
The Power of Yet
about ?

What is

The Power of Yet

about ?

What is this Method about ?

The Power of Yet is a simple exercise of shifting the language we use to be more empowering. In this method, we identify a situation we'd like to change and add "yet" to a statement about it. When we say this statement to ourselves or to a partner, insights may arise and energy may move in our bodies. It's amazing!

When and why is this Method used ?

The Power of Yet is used anytime we want to offer a boost of empowerment or demonstrate how simple and accessible empowerment can be.

Where does this Method come from ?

Original Source Details

It is hard to identify the original source of this method. I learned about it from my fire-spinning teacher, Glitter Girl of the Temple of Poi. If you know another source, please let us know and we will add it here.

Audience

Is participant experience relevant for The Power of Yet ?

It's okay if participants haven't seen the inside of a classroom in years

Audience description for The Power of Yet

Everyone!

Other prerequisites for participants

None!

Requirements

Experience level of the facilitator

Self explanatory, no experience needed

Number of Facilitators :

How Stationary

Stationary necessary, at least in parts

Location requirements

A place with writing surfaces for the participants

How to host "The Power of Yet"

Run Through

Pre Exercise

Steps

Introduction

Words can block action, but words can also carry us past blocks. In this exercise we will identify something that you currently can't or don't do but would like to, then we create an empowering statement around that activity. You might be surprised by what happens for you when we do this.

List some things you can't or don't do, but would like to (or would like to be able to do).

Invite everyone to either use the handout or their journal to write down at least three things that can't or don't do but would like to.

Pick one.

Pick one of the items on your list. One that is not totally unreasonable (not “fly me to the moon!”), one that you’re really sure about: yes, I’d love to do that! Circle that one. Then write in the space below (or in your journal): How would your life be richer if you could?

Try "yet".

Try “yet”. “I don’t/can’t/haven’t... ...yet.”

Try it with a partner.

Put the participants into pairs and invite them to say their new statement to each other. As they do, invite them to notice: Do you feel a difference? After they have each made their statements to each other, invite them to reflect in their journals: what comes up for you as you say this? Are you inspired to write down what is stopping you and/or what would make it possible? Do you notice any shift in your relationship to this action?

Reflection

After 5 minutes or so of journaling, invite them to share in pairs or in the large group and reflect on how this practice was for them.

Online

Potential for Solely Online & Blended Learning

Absolutely!

Material for

Additional Material Description

Here is a PDF you can download and print to use with your participants. This is taken directly out the workbook Live Your Power (available for free here: https://hosting.la-palma-web.digital/wp-content/uploads/HEMP-Power-of-Yet.pdf)

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Impact

Hidden Curriculum The not so hidden curriculum of the Power of Yet is empowerment! The more hidden curriculum is awareness and mindfulness.

Individual EmpowermmentThere's nothing different you need to do: it is inherently empowering.

Group EmpowermentThe potential of the Power of Yet for group empowerment and Community of Practice was revealed in the Hosting Empowerment partnership: we put this method into our workbook and then it became part of our working lexicon. At monthly coordination meetings every month someone would say something like "I haven't finished that thing I said I would do… yet!" Or someone would say "This is so frustrating! I can't do it!" and then everyone else would chorus "YET!" So it became a part of our culture because we were all familiar with the method and we could practice it together and reinforce the habit for each other.

project

IN WHICH THIS method WAS DEVELOPED

Hosting Empowerment

ERASMUS +

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. Find more information about the program and its goals here: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/.

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